It would indeed be strange if you were asked to go beyond all symbols of the world, forgetting them forever; yet were asked to take a teaching function. You have need to use the symbols of the world a while. But be you not deceived by them as well. They do not stand for anything at all, and in your practicing it is this thought that will release you from them. They become but means by which you can communicate in ways the world can understand, but which you recognize is not the unity where true communication can be found.
Thus what you need are intervals each day in which the learning of the world becomes a transitory phase; a prison house from which you go into the sunlight and forget the darkness. Here you understand the Word, the Name which God has given you; the one Identity which all things share; the one acknowledgment of what is true. And then step back to darkness, not because you think it real, but only to proclaim its unreality in terms which still have meaning in the world that darkness rules.
The Holy Spirit uses all [names and symbols], but He does not forget creation has one Name, one meaning, and a single Source which unifies all things within Itself. Use all the names the world bestows on them but for convenience, yet do not forget they share the Name [Identity] of God along with you. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 184, W-pI.184.9-10;11:3-4. See also ACIM Lesson 184 Insights.)
Our true Identity is beyond the world we see, sharing the limitlessness of our Creator. It is not limited to an image, a form or a certain space and time. This fact is incomprehensible to the mind that believes separation from Love is real. We need to let go of the beliefs which blind us to the eternal presence of limitless Love. Only our beliefs make a loveless world seem real. Only in Love’s oneness is true communication—the eternal flow of Love—possible.
It is impossible to define Love in the symbols and words of the world. But symbols can be used by the Holy Spirit to teach us how to recognize the barriers to Love we have made. With His help the barriers are dispelled, if we are willing to accept His reinterpretation of our perceptions.
We want the peace of God. Today we practice asking the Holy Spirit for His help to see past our barriers to Love and let them go. We are willing to see the Light of Love everywhere, in everyone and in all things. We teach only Love and learn we are Love.
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